From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 7 12:19:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21456 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 12:19:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21448 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 12:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (karl@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id OAA14701; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 14:19:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) id OAA00770; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 14:19:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980607141941.39626@mcs.net> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 14:19:41 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff References: <199806070813.DAA01895@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <199806070813.DAA01895@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 03:13:57AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 03:13:57AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > The latest patch is: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~dyson/sysjun07b.diff.gz > > SMP performance should be much better than standard -current, > and this code embodies the most of the changes necessary > to support kernel threads properly in the VM code. > > I guess that there are still some interrupt latency problems > for SIO, but YMMV. All in all, the system is much more > responsive, and this code should fix a myriad of bugs. Cleaned > up versions of these changes will be committed next weekend. > > Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks > for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet), > a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of > TLB IPI's. The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming. > > John > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message Is this relavent for UP systems? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message